Geraldo Rivera’s Mustache Will Not Save His Junk From The TSA

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by Frances Martel | 9:07 am, November 20th, 2010

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Lest anyone believe that there is away around the TSA’s new anti-terror screening, Geraldo Rivera is here to set the record straight: even celebrities get their junk touched. Rivera visited Juan Williams on the O’Reilly Factor last night to share his recent flying experience: “they say ‘Hi, Geraldo,’ and then they proceed to give me the most invasive, insulting, intrusive body pat down.” No one is safe.

Needless to say, Rivera is severely unhappy with the system as it exists not because it is intrusive, though that seems to bother him, too, but because it is a waste of time. “It is not results-oriented,” he tells Williams, “it is form-oriented.” Rivera goes on to further explain that, despite being fairly recognizable and flying often enough that, even if he weren’t famous, he would be well-known at his home airport, he always gets an extra round of security clearance (something like this, we imagine?) because of his titanium knee replacement.

To streamline the system, Rivera suggested “criminal profiling”– saving the junk-grabbing for people who exhibit significant risk factors and letting those least likely to pose a threat through. Specifically, Rivera argued that frequent fliers should not be submitted to the searches every time they fly. He also noted that “synagogue and church groups” should catch a break as “classes of people for whom the prospect of terrorism is infinitesimally remote,” though he seems to have left out a fairly obvious group in that category that many may argue actually merit an even more thorough search– mosque groups.

While Williams didn’t pounce on that omission, he did note that there were going to be categories of fliers that would be targeted more often than others, and that most Americans accepted the current system because “it makes us safer.” Rivera argued that most of those Americans were likely to not fall under the category of those “for whom commercial aviation is a fact of their life”– the group Rivera was most adamant to protect. That said, knowing that there would be ethnic groups more likely to be searched offended Rivera, despite what he considered a need for such measures, but it wouldn’t be the first time Rivera experienced something similar: “I’m offended like I was offended during the drug war when my mustache made me the person who was targeted.”

The discussion from last night’s O’Reilly Factor (hosted by Williams) via Fox News below:

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lazzzlo

This is fast becoming a very overplayed meme. Anytime Geraldo Rivera, mustache and Junk are used in the same sentence warning signals should instantly occur.
sarainitaly

Interesting that an Hispanic and an African American would support profiling at the airport, and I’m pretty sure they are both against profiling in Arizona… But if criminal profiling is legal, I don’t know why they can’t use it at the airports and in Arizona, Texas, etc.

What is the difference? Men, originating from certain countries, between a certain age meet the profile for terrorists that have broken the law, and launched attacks after having passed through security at airports – therefore can be criminally profiled.

Can’t you say the same thing about illegal immigrants in Arizona – men and women (of a certain age?), lack of english skills, majority originating from Mexico, that have broken the law by passing through the border, fit the profile for people breaking the law, and illegally entering the US, thus the police should be able to criminally profile them, no?
Cecelia

Poor Geraldo, he thinks he should get the “Hollywood treatment”.

Maybe a handshake with a TSA agent, along with a comped flight…
dummy123

Very interesting that a couple of minority fellows lauding profiling without using the word.
Focusing on the usual suspects……..I approve.
dummy123

Cecelia said:
Poor Geraldo, he thinks he should get the “Hollywood treatment”.

Maybe a handshake with a TSA agent, along with a comped flight…

I think it is more about wasting valuable resources on the wrong people.
Listen I believe Keith Olberloon should undergo a thorough cavity search at the airport but is that really going to make us safer?
Cecelia

Maybe the TSA could hire Ashley Dupre solely to inspect the junk of celebrities and media members who think that they are one.
Cecelia

dummy123 said:
Listen I believe Keith Olberloon should undergo a thorough cavity search at the airport but is that really going to make us safer?

ABSOLUTELY!
Pablo

dummy123 said:
I think it is more about wasting valuable resources on the wrong people.

Yeah, the amount and intensity of screening that really old, medical implant laden and often wheelchair-bound people is obscene, especially given that Granny is not going to be hijacking or blowing up the plane. we know this. Why do we bother, other than to show how awesome it is that we humiliate everyone equally? The problem is, it isn’t equal. I know the ropes and tend to glide right through. Whenever I see a wheelchair in front of me, I find another line, because I know it’s going to be a major production.
Big Eddie

All right , you mugs .This is one more smackdown of the economy as people decide not to fly unless they have to and resorts and tourist destinations lose more business . The terrorists , no doubt , are enjoying the aggravation they are indirectly causing while not lifting a finger . The TSA should try common sense and forget political correctness . Those who are offended will always find something to be offended about . See ?
dummy123

Not all Muslims want to die for jihad.
I’ll bet the ranch that a Muslim has worried about whether another suspicious/nervous Muslim on the same plane has be thoroughly screened.
PC bullshit goes out the window when you are at 30,000 feet.
dummy123

Big Eddie said:
All right , you mugs .This is one more smackdown of the economy as people decide not to fly unless they have to and resorts and tourist destinations lose more business . The terrorists , no doubt , are enjoying the aggravation they are indirectly causing while not lifting a finger . The TSA should try common sense and forget political correctness . Those who are offended will always find something to be offended about . See ?

They laugh at our lameness!
How would this new round of screening stopped the 2 dudes out of Chicago pull off a successful dry run a few months ago???
Harry Flashman

Groping Geraldo.

Egads.

Pass the mind bleach, please.
timzank

Clearly the correct way to implement airport/airplane security is to use a common sense model like that of El Al, but we will probably never be allowed to mimic that common sense application because of the overwhelming belief that everyone’s “feelings” are paramount.

Did you ever think you’d live in a country that would so blatantly overlook the obvious?
Pablo

I just want to know how much extra it is to have your screening moved to the champagne room.
Pablo

timzank said:
Did you ever think you’d live in a country that would so blatantly overlook the obvious?

Not just blatantly, but willfully and proud of it. It’s a pity.
ChiliPeppersFan

hey geraldo…ron jeremy wants his mustche back
Jim R

There are two goals of this policy that go unmentioned:

This new TSA policy is purposely designed to enrage the citizenry, thereby paving the way for actual profiling to be accepted as a viable alternative or at least debated.

Widely reported in Europe but barely so here are planned terrorist attacks between now and the year’s end. This administration is responding with heightened searches instead of the red and orange alerts preferred by the previous one.

Once again a Democrat in the White House moves the Overton Window ever rightward while being portrayed as engaging in a Socialist conspiracy to takeover the country.

Between selling out to insurance and pharmaceutical companies and managing Cheney’s wars, spying on Americans and selling out to Wall Street, I don’t why Obama doesn’t just re-register as a Republican and give up the charade.
Labaliente Foosallent

Wait until Geraldo has to experience the thrills of a savage fisting and watching the TSA agents licking the rectal blood off of the glove. This psychotic madness has just begun. Before it’s over TSA agents will be waterboarding nuns and raping toddlers.
timzank

Jim R said:
There are two goals of this policy that go unmentioned: This new TSA policy is purposely designed to enrage the citizenry, thereby paving the way for actual profiling to be accepted as a viable alternative or at least debated. Widely reported in Europe but barely so here are planned terrorist attacks between now and the year’s end. This administration is responding with heightened searches instead of the red and orange alerts preferred by the previous one. Once again a Democrat in the White House moves the Overton Window ever rightward while being portrayed as engaging in a Socialist conspiracy to takeover the country. Between selling out to insurance and pharmaceutical companies and managing Cheney’s wars, spying on Americans and selling out to Wall Street, I don’t why Obama doesn’t just re-register as a Republican and give up the charade.

Is there airline security like ours on your planet?
Probably NOT wrong

Had my first TSA patdown at Miami-Dade last night approx 9:00 PM.
I do not know the sexual orientation of the Securilty Guard and don’t care, but he did
look like Rosie O’Donnell but with a worse disposition, if that is possibe. I won’t get too graphic
here, even though, I have read many graphic things here in the past.
Butt got felt up pretty damn good. Rosie was also pretty thorough when he got around to the
front!
I had this planned from the minute I knew I was going to go through that screening line
, and when Rosie finished I asked him for a cigarette and a place I could take a quick nap.
He was not amused and said that was about the tenth variation of that one he had heard since his
shift started.
Passengers that were in both lines were obviousley NOT comfortable, plus the agents did not look
that comfortable either!

This is not going to last, Way too many smart asses like me out here.
BTW I don’t smoke. :)
ObamAcornLies

The fact that the dude who put these in place is connected with the people making the scanners is just a bit to close for comfort and not to mention that George Soros is also making money from this. Well, not anymore that he dropped the stock, because we were on to him!

DISGUSTING!
Jim R

timzank said:
Is there airline security like ours on your planet?

I didn’t argue for or against the new policy on my planet using my written English, but simply pointed my opinion of a couple reasons behind the policy.